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Introduction 35<br />

overcome the readers’ transgressions and bring them to communion with the horror of God<br />

dying for them so that they may live.<br />

In all of these works, the reader finds that the Incarnation can be understood in an<br />

orthodox manner yet can still produce diverse responses. The doctrine that God assumed<br />

human form – was ‘humbled in the flesh’ – and now lives creates lively devotional works,<br />

and a central and uniform doctrine of belief still allows for individual interpretation and<br />

representation. In the chapters that follow the Incarnation will be used a lens to help<br />

understand how various authors of ranging from Roman Catholic to Protestant use the<br />

central tenet of the Christian faith to try to understand their own situation in life and in<br />

relation to God.

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